[1] His mother was Ben no Menoto,[1] a daughter of Fujiwara no Masatoki (藤原順時),[1] the governor of Kaga Province.
[2] He was the adoptive father of Arisuke (有佐), a son of Emperor Go-Sanjō.
[2] His other children included Michitsune (道経), the governor of Izumi Province,[2] Kenshi (ja), the wet nurse of Emperor Horikawa,[2] and Nagako, the author of the Sanuki-no-suke Nikki [ja].
[2] Sonpi Bunmyaku says he died on the 27th day of the sixth month of Kōwa 5 (1103), at age 75 (by Japanese reckoning),[2] but his poetry appears in the record of the Sakon no Gon-Chūjō Toshitada Ason-ke Uta-awase (左近権中将俊忠朝臣家歌合), which took place the following year.
[2] According to the Fukuro-zōshi [ja], he was engaged in copying the Man'yōshū,[2] and that he came into possession of the Yōmei-in text (陽明院本 Yōmei'in-bon) of the Kokinshū, penned by the compiler Ki no Tsurayuki.